Team

Chiu Shui Chan, PhD Title: Professor Department: Architecture Email: cschan@iastate.edu Office: 482 Design, 715 Bissell Rd, Ames, IA 50011 URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cschan/
Description:Dr. Chiu-Shui Chan is a Professor of Architecture in the College of Design, where he teaches CAD modeling, rendering, animation, virtual reality application, and programming courses. He has been affiliated with the VRAC since 1996 and served as the HCI faculty since 2003. During these years, he completed the VADeT Project, Miller VR Library Project, Project Aware on Taj Mahal, NSF Beijing Project, and the AIA/AWL project. Dr. Chan’s research activities have extended across various fields of architecture, cognitive science, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. For example, Dr. Chan’s research interests includes the exploring computer simulation of design processes, examining the cognitive forces and mechanisms that generate an individual architecture style, experimenting with methods of applying computer graphics in design, and addressing the challenge of applying virtual reality as an evaluation tool to predict / assess any actual environment. Currently, Dr. Chan concentrates on finding/developing methods to maximize the sense of reality for digitizing humanity to preserve history in his digital building models and implementing urban regulations embedded in the city models displayed graphically in the virtually immersive environment.
Jelena Bogdanovic, PhD Title: Associate Professor Email: jelenab@iastate.edu Office: 156 Design, 715 Bissell Rd, Ames, IA 50011
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Vijay Kalivarapu, PhD Title: Staff Research Scientist Email: vkk2@iastate.edu Office: Virtual Reality Applications Center, 1620 Howe Hall, 537 Bissell Rd, Ames, IA 50011 URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijaykalivarapu/
Description: Vijay’s educational credentials include a PhD majoring in Mechanical Engineering and co-majoring in Human-Computer Interaction. He enjoys challenging research and a growth-oriented, dynamic work environment. His primary research interests are in 3D visualization, Virtual and Augmented Reality, fully immersive and commodity Virtual Reality systems, and engineering design optimization for complex systems.
Chirag Khurana Classification: Graduate student Major: Architecture Email: ckhurana@iastate.edu	Camera shy for now!
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TianLing (Rusty) Xu Classification: Graduate student Major: Architecture Email: tianling@iastate.edu	Camera shy for now!
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Ian Spadin Classification: Senior, Undergrad Major: Architecture Email: ispadin@iastate.edu	Camera shy for now!
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